Harun Farocki

Grimme Award

Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

Kulturplatz

Cinématon

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever...

Class Relations

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond h...

Kampf um ein Kind

A West Berlin doctor, married with a two-year-old child, leaves her husband to go to Munich to work in the birt...

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

"Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas" (2026) is a Brazilian experimental documentary and film essay direct...

Who is Helene Schwarz?

Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Acade...

Images of the World and the Inscription of War

Farocki’s intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they affect our und...

EXPRMNTL

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the p...

Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki

Among the "political" filmmakers who got their start in the student movement, Harun Farocki is perhaps the most...

A German Youth

At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation di...

Workers Leaving the Factory

Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki pr...

Break the Power of the Manipulators

Documentary by Helke Sander, in collaboration with Harun Farocki (among others), about the campaign of the West...

Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins)

A look into the life of Holger Meins, the German cinematography student who became a revolutionary and a promin...

Between Two Wars

A film about the time of the blast furnaces – 1917–1933 – about the development of an industry, about perfect m...

"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

Henry Angst

Henry Angst receives a farewell letter that promises an unspeakably cheerful death and calls his previous life...

The Inextinguishable Fire

An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.

Starbuck Holger Meins

Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Co...

Navy Cut

The revolution is as good as over, but the captain wants to send his crew into one last battle. Before this can...

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teache...

"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.

Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika".

About Narration

Interdisciplinary studies put into practice is a plane on which HaF's interests and mine coincide. Ideas of fic...

Their Newspapers

Ihre Zeitungen is a political film rooted in the 1968 student campaign against the Springer press group, which...

Die Teilung aller Tage

A worker is sitting at a conveyor belt on which light bulbs are coming in at regular intervals. He takes the li...

Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma

A documentary about the events at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) in November 1968, which...

The Expression of Hands

Historically, the cinema close-up was initially employed to convey emotions through facial expressions. But soo...

Something Self Explanatory (15x)

An educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value and labor as...

Interface

Harun Farocki was commissioned by the Lille Museum of Modern Art to produce a video 'about his work'. His creat...

About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright

Song of Ceylon was commissioned for the short-lived German TV-series Telekritik and broadcasted in 1975. In Tel...

Palette revisited

Die Palette was a legendary basement bar at 55 ABC Street, where a colorful crowd of dockworkers, vagrants, stu...

Putting Things Straight

Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the rev...

Filme von Peter Weiss

An introduction to films by Peter Weiss: "Study II" (1952) "Study IV" (1954)" According to the Law" (1957) "Sha...

Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).

An homage to Harun Farocki, who left us too soon. I hope this memory of a wonderful summer night in Berlin test...

Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser

Harun Farocki sits down with Vilém Flusser to discuss the front page of the German tabloid newspaper Bild Zeitu...